Hi Radhika, On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM Yeddanapudi Radhika <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here are some of the books from this year in no particular order: > > > 1. The Liberation of Sita - Refreshing take rescuing Sita from remaining > forever enshrined as the most boring, most submissive character in world > mythology. It takes a Telugu woman! > I am so glad to have found another person who read and liked this book. I could not stop talking about the book for several weeks after I read it. I even gave my copy to a friend who I wanted to read it. > 3. Uzumaki - Required reading for me because I'm vending some Lovecraftian > fiction from India to Spain and Mexico (it is an open ended experiment but > I want it to succeed). Uzumaki is hypnotic and well, I ended up screaming > at the sight of a towel soaked in a bucket in the shape of a...spiral! Read > it to get the reference. I'd say it's fatalistic and antithetical to > American optimism but may have been true to the 30s and 40s when Lovecraft > was writing. > Horror is not my genre, but at the insistence of someone I read it. *Shudder*. I can easily understand screaming out loud at seeing spirals. I had nightmares for several days. My friend (the recommender) had met Junji Ito in person at an event and said that he has a weird, Gothic-sense about him. > > Also, in Spanish: > 1. El corazón helado - Almudena Grandes. Family saga set in the Spanish > civil war. Okish. But I'm getting more into Los Pacientes del Doctor > García. > > 2. An anthology of Antonio Machado's poetry - the best poem played on the > themes of life and poetry until you weren't sure which was a toy and which > had no meaning. > > Hindi: > 1. Just begun Ret Samadhi or Tomb of Sand. > Nice! keep the recommendations coming, y'all. S. > > > > > > -- > *Translator/Owner* > *AzulIndica Translations* > *North Vancouver BC, Canada* > > > > > > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
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